Lord Davies of Oldham: Grant-in-aid allocations per head of the area's population for the past five years are set out in the tables for (a) England, (b) Wales (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
	These figures do not include funding from the National Lottery. Census population figures include children and adults.
	
		
			 (a) England
			 Year Grant in aid (£s) Population Spend per head (£) 
			 2001-02 251,455,000 49,387,700 5.09 
			 2002-03 289,405,000 49,561,800 5.84 
			 2003-04 324,955,000 49,855,700 6.52 
			 2004-05 368,859,000 50,093,100 7.36 
			 2005-06 412,000,000 50,431,700 8.17 
			 * Source: Office of National Statistics mid-year population estimates
		
	
	
		
			 (b) Wales
			 Year Grant in aid (£s) Population Spend per head (£) 
			 2001-02 16,529, 000 2,910,232 5.68 
			 2002-03 21,163, 000 2,923,392 7.24 
			 2003-04 22,797, 000 2,937,991 7.76 
			 2004-05 23,848, 000 2,952,462 8.08 
			 2005-06 26,930, 000 2,958,590 9.10 
		
	
	
		
			 (c) Scotland
			 Year Grant in Aid (£s) Population* Spend per Head (£) 
			 2001-02 37,653, 790 5,064,200 7.44 
			 2002-03 37,158, 000 5,054,800 7.35 
			 2003-04 44,191, 999 5,057,400 8.73 
			 2004-05 52,207, 629 5,078,400 10.28 
			 2005-06 54,556, 240 5,094,800 10.70 
			 *Source: Scottish Executive Census 2001
		
	
	
		
			 (d) Northern Ireland
			 Year Grant in aid (£s) Population Spend per head (£) 
			 2001-02 8,696,000 1,689,319 5.15 
			 2002-03 9,826,000 1,696,641 5.79 
			 2003-04 9,826,000 1,702,628 5.77 
			 2004-05 11,050, 000 1,710,322 6.46 
			 2005-06 10,780, 000 1,724,408 6.25

Lord Truscott: The detail of revenue raised for dispersal by the Government through renewables obligation buy-out payments and the sums distributed, and to whom, is shown in the table below:
	
		
			 Supplier name 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 
			 Airtricity Energy Supply Ltd n/a n/a n/a £55,557 
			 BizzEnergy Ltd £0 £0 £67,621 £346,563 
			 British Energy £2,523,904 £699,133 £2,331,282 £6,117,398 
			 British Gas Trading Limited £15,812,265 £33,017,071 £22,096,276 £19,969,937 
			 Cinergy £3,378 £11,985 £13,327 £0 
			 Economy Power £344,029 £51,748 £0 £228,746 
			 Edf Energy £19,466,648 £0 £0 £0 
			 Electricity Direct (UK) Ltd £0 £2,312,028 £1,077,987 £96,225 
			 Enron Gas & Petrochemicals Trading Ltd £0 £0 £0 £0 
			 ESB Independent Energy n/a n/a n/a £327,404 
			 Gaz de France Marketing Ltd £0 £0 £0 £1,624,154 
			 Good Energy Ltd £0 £43,039 £41,935 £48,883 
			 Innogy £6,372,627 £0 £0 £0 
			 London Energy Plc £0 £27,089,029 £17,442,369 £16,023,151 
			 npower Direct Ltd £0 £502,314 £1,676,436 £1,096,734 
			 npower Ltd £0 £4,903,426 £14,386,488 £9,775,859 
			 npower Ltd (NI) £0 £0 £0 £362 
			 npower Northern Ltd £0 £1,392,744 £3,662,850 £1,888,389 
			 npower Yorkshire Ltd £0 £903,813 £2,024,253 £992,581 
			 Opus Energy £5,880 £0 £127,541 £134,851 
			 E.ON UK Plc £0 £17,632,269 £13,433,899 £10,227,086 
			 Powergen Retail Ltd £22,878,003 £21,593,266 £21,319,801 £16,746,310 
			 Renewable Energy Co £122,724 £0 £115,634 £0 
			 SSE Energy Supply Ltd £6,932,210 £29,176,553 £22,292,682 £23,355,455 
			 Scottish Power Energy Retail Ltd £4,701,228 £9,950,663 £8,786,381 £13,311,666 
			 Seeboard Energy Ltd £0 £7,005,275 £4,105,068 £3,541,423 
			 Slough Electricity £45,178 £153,137 £153,391 £130,200 
			 SmartestEnergy Limited £0 £69,440 £105,761 £101,247 
			 The Renewable Energy Company Ltd £0 £241,921  £71,960 
			 Total Gas & Power Ltd £0 £992,299 £855,854 £941,108 
			 Tradelink Solutions Ltd £0 £68 £2,198 £14,676 
			 Tradelink Solutions Ltd (NI) n/a n/a n/a £9 
			 UK Electric Power Ltd £0 £706,650 £0 £0 
			 Utility Link £43,856 £18,631 £50,880 £0 
			 TOTAL redistributed from buy-out fund £79,251,930 £158,466,502 £136,169,914 £127,167,934 
			 TOTAL paid into buy-out fund £78,853,260 £157,960,978 £135,657,002 £126,714,597 
			 n/a = NI suppliers that could only receive a share of the RO buy-out fund from 1 April 2006 when single recycling was introduced and the NIRO came into force. Difference between total paid into and total paid out from buy-out fund is due to interest.

Lord Triesman: Under the UK's constitutional arrangements, it is ultimately for Parliament to decide whether to hold a referendum given the particular circumstances of the issue. On certain issues, the Government have recommended that particular arrangements should be subject to a referendum, but there is no requirement to hold one.
	There is no consensus among EU member states on the way forward regarding the constitutional treaty. The German presidency will present a report to the June European Council on the state of discussions on the future of Europe. The Government make no presumption on the outcome of these discussions. Their approach was set out in my right honourable friend the Minister for Europe's Written Ministerial Statement of 5 December 2006 (Official Report,Commons, cols. 10-11WS) in another place. This remains the Government's position.

Lord Triesman: Under the UK's constitutional arrangements, it is ultimately for Parliament to decide whether to hold a referendum given the particular circumstances of the issue. On certain issues, the Government have recommended that particular arrangements should be subject to a referendum, but there is no requirement to hold one.
	There is no consensus among EU member states on the way forward regarding the constitutional treaty. The German presidency will present a report to the June European Council on the state of discussions on the future of Europe. The Government make no presumption on the outcome of these discussions. Their approach was set out in my right honourable friend the Minister for Europe's Written Ministerial Statement of 5 December 2006 (Official Report, Commons, cols.10-11WS) in another place. This remains the Government's position.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The latest data available are for 2005 and show that:
	6,549 isolates of all types of staphylococcus aureus were referred to the Health Protection Agency Staphylococcus Reference Laboratory for testing, including both methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA )strains;1,277 of these were from blood samples;toxin gene testing was requested on 196 of the staphylococcus aureus from blood cultures (these included both MSSA and MRSA); andeight of the 196 samples were identified as Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive MRSA.

Baroness Andrews: The Design for Manufacture competition was opened on 1 April 2005. Its purpose is to provide a showcase of how to build cost-effectively across a range of housing types without sacrificing quality.
	It aims to stimulate fresh thinking on a scale that will help the industry break out of the research and development cycle, facilitating the mainstreaming of modem construction for volume developments in a way that others can follow.
	The target for the competition is that a minimum of 30 per cent of housing units should be high-quality 76.5 square metre homes built at a construction cost of £60,000 or less, with larger and smaller homes built at a similar cost-efficiency. To identify what might be a challenging but achievable figure for the core costs of constructing a home, a series of data sets, such as those produced by the RICS Building Costs Information Service and the Tender Price Index of Social Housing, were used as well as real-life case studies. The sale prices of homes will include the cost of the land as well as the construction cost and associated new infrastructure.
	Prices in different neighbourhoods can be very variable, depending on particular characteristics of the location, the local market and the individual properties to be sold. They will be determined by the developers at the time the homes go on sale.

Baroness Andrews: Previous estimates have projected demand for home inspectors (HIs) and domestic energy assessors (DEAs) from June 2007 to fall within a range between 1,600 and 4,300. Further analysis has been completed, informed by the HIPs area trials and other survey work. We now estimate that around 2,500 assessors will be needed from June, rising to around 3,000 by the autumn and 4,000 to 4500 by the end of the year. More assessors will be needed during 2008 to produce EPCs for commercial buildings and for those in the private and social rented sector.
	Home inspectors and domestic energy assessors will be able to produce energy performance certificates. Currently, 1,085 HIs have completed their HI examinations, with several hundred more nearing the end of their training.
	Since training courses for new domestic energy assessors (DEAs) became available in late January, more than 2,700 candidates have registered for or begun training. The DEA diploma course takes eight to 12 weeks, so the first candidates are now completing their courses. Eighty-six have completed the course and hundreds more will do so in the next few weeks. We estimate that between 2,500 and 3,000 assessors and inspectors will be available to undertake assessments from l June.